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Photo #31531: Cossus cossus

Male

Cossus cossus

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Base gallery. Upperside. Alive insect.

Photo: Alexsandr Martukov. Image without retouching at the website. Identified by: Vasiliy Feoktistov

Date and time, location shooting/catching: 2014-07-17 00:00:00, Vologda region, Veliky Ustyug, the outskirts of the city in the dead ends of the railway, a lawn on the edge.

Photographer's comment: The hawk moth, probably a big one, fit roughly into a rectangle slightly smaller than a matchbox. In the evening, around 20.30.

Comments on this image

18.07.2014 9:25, Alexsandr Martukov

Yeah, I read the wiki.

18.07.2014 6:53, Vasiliy Feoktistov

Alexander, you oshilis: Hyles is not :)
I put the male: it seems to me so on mustache, but may have to fix :)

18.07.2014 6:50, Vasiliy Feoktistov Corrected data.

Not identified / Imago → Cossus cossus / Confidently identified / Male / Vasiliy Feoktistov.

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